State v. Terrance Lewis – Episode 1 – The Virtually Perfect Witness
Undisclosed: Toward Justice
mital
4.2 • 10.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2017
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
December 4, 2017 / One witness is all the evidence you need to obtain a conviction. And when Terrance Lewis was tried and convicted in 1999 for the murder of a man gunned down in his West Philadelphia rowhouse, one "virtually perfect" witness was all the evidence the prosecution had against him. But how perfect was her testimony, really?
Image: Satellite view of the house at 6120 Sansom, with layout reconstructed based on witness statements
Episode scoring music by Animal Weapon, Blue Dot Sessions.
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine that you've been accused of murder. |
| 0:16.8 | Almost a year ago, a man was shot and killed in his home, and a woman who was there when |
| 0:21.8 | it happened says that she saw you do it. |
| 0:24.7 | That she saw you and two of your friends coming to her house and rob her and her boyfriend, |
| 0:29.9 | and then just as the three of you were leaving, one of your friends turns around and shoots |
| 0:34.2 | her boyfriend. |
| 0:35.2 | The three of you leave the house and she calls the police, but it's too late. |
| 0:39.4 | Her boyfriend dies. |
| 0:41.5 | She tells the police that you did it. |
| 0:44.6 | This witness has no reason to lie, and there's no reason whatsoever really to doubt the basic |
| 0:49.4 | outline of her story. |
| 0:52.4 | And at least in this case, there's no chance that she's the killer or anything like that. |
| 0:57.8 | She's the eyewitness to the case and she says you did it. |
| 1:01.8 | She's also the only eyewitness at your trial. |
| 1:04.0 | Actually, she's the only evidence against you, period. |
| 1:07.5 | There's no other corroborating evidence, no forensics, nothing like that. |
| 1:11.7 | But then why should there be? |
| 1:14.5 | It was a simple, senseless crime, and the evidence against you is just as simple. |
| 1:18.9 | She saw you do it. |
| 1:19.9 | She's certain of it. |
| 1:20.9 | She was right there. |
| 1:22.0 | You did it. |
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